The artistic side of photography in theory and practice . 5 inch I -plate lens. Fig. 7. 14 inch |-plate lens. 91 <J5$ Perspective and the Lens to the use of a lens of insufficient focal length. If thelens had been double the focal length of the one em-ployed, the hills would have been drawn twice as large,and they would have appeared the same size as thosewhich we remembered. Perspective is the drawing of solid objects, situatedat different distances from the eye, on a flat surface—as, for example, the drawing of the nearest and moredistant parts of a building on a sheet of paper. Forpracti
The artistic side of photography in theory and practice . 5 inch I -plate lens. Fig. 7. 14 inch |-plate lens. 91 <J5$ Perspective and the Lens to the use of a lens of insufficient focal length. If thelens had been double the focal length of the one em-ployed, the hills would have been drawn twice as large,and they would have appeared the same size as thosewhich we remembered. Perspective is the drawing of solid objects, situatedat different distances from the eye, on a flat surface—as, for example, the drawing of the nearest and moredistant parts of a building on a sheet of paper. Forpractical purposes, we may take a window-pane as thepicture surface, and, closing one eye, draw the outlineof a distant tree on the glass with a brush dipped inpigment. The farther the eye is placed away fromthe glass, the larger will be the outline ; and a tree thatwould be drawn three inches high when the eye is onefoot from the window-pane, will be drawn six incheshigh when the eye is placed two feet from the window-pane. Now, this last paragraph is most
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